Monday, May 22, 2017

7th Annual 30 Day Photography Challenge - June 1-30, 2017

It's the 7th year of this challenge!!!

Let's do this, people.

Here are the prompts for this year, in the image below. Each day of the challenge corresponds with the date in June. For example, Day 1 is for June 1st, and pictures should be posted on the 1st. Ideally, you will add the picture directly into the album designated for each day in the challenge. Please try to get them into the correct albums. With this many people, it's going to be impossible for me to move all the pictures that aren't put in the right place.

When you post a picture, please be sure to tag it with the number of the day in the challenge and any pertinent information you'd like us to know about the picture.

We will be utilizing the hashtag #30dayphoto this year. Please add it to the images you post so that they will all be searchable with the hashtag.

Please remember that the group is a public group on Facebook. All images posted will be viewable by anyone.The Rules

One picture per day per person. Please stick to this rule during the 30 day challenge. There are hundreds of people in the group now. Thanks in advance.

Please try to add the pictures directly to the albums that will be set up for each day. If you can't add them to the album, no biggie, but it would be preferred.

There is no requirement that you participate every day to be eligible for the contest.

You MUST email me your pictures to have them considered for the contest. There is a strict limit of 5 entries per person, and the pictures MUST be sent to me at debiehive@gmail.com by midnight on June 30th. There will be a release you must sign in order to enter the contest. More information on this later.

What is chosen for the contest is entirely at my discretion.

I will remove photos I deem offensive, and reserve the right to do so.

Only post pictures of people you have permission to post images of.

The idea is to take NEW pictures. You may not re-use pictures submitted in past years.

The contest runs after the challenge ends, hosted on my blog, for seven days. It will start July 5th and run for one week.

THE PRIZES ARE AMAZING THIS YEAR. More details to come!

HAVE FUN!!!! I love photography and started doing these to get people out there experimenting with their cameras.

Tips for taking self-portraits

1. Pay attention to the lighting. Avoid using the flash whenever possible

2. Decide what your best angle is - makes faces at yourself in the mirror if you don't already know.

3. Look just up and to the side of the lens, not directly at it.

4. If you have double chins that you'd like to pretend don't exist (not that you do, of course LOL), look slightly up to take the picture, hold the camera a tiny bit higher than you normally would.

5. Make sure there isn't anything messing up your background, or giving you bunny ears, or growing out of the top of your head.

6. Take more than one picture, with slightly different expressions. Then you can pick the best one.

7. Try to laugh naturally so your smile doesn't look forced.

8. Remember you can always zoom in, but you can't zoom out once the picture is taken.

I will not be posting blog posts with the prompt each day this year. I will post each day's picture in the group and on my Facebook page. They will all be posted to Instagram and Twitter as well. If you aren't following me there, Twitter and Instagram are FAR better at showing people the things I post.My Instagram profile can be found here.

Finally, if you would like to offer up a prize for the contest, please let me know ASAP. Your link and a picture of the item submitted will be added to the contest post, which is seen by thousands of people each year. My email is debiehive@gmail.com.